Shuttle-tension device



by drawing` it through guide8 and then engaging it from above with the (hook-shaped) gmdes 7. If the thread-guide has an eye or opening of amplesize'with respect pto. the Wire-leg 9b of the guide 9 on which 1t 1s mounted, or substantially as shown, it will travel at all times with perfect freedom. It is further entirely free-toturn on such legof the guide, thus reducing the possibilitys'of the lling forming nicks therein to catch and break the filling. Repairs or replacementof the guide 9, thread-guide 8 or spring are alwaysvreadily possible because removal of the guide requires removal of only a single securing element-the device l0; in-

deed, replacement of the thread-guide 8 is possible by simply withdrawing the free ends of guide 9 from the holes y6, it having for this purposea certain degree of flexibility. Having thus fully described 1n Y invention what I'ela'im and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1; A loom shuttle including, with a shuttle body and means to support therein an endwise-delivering weft-thread package Withits longitudinal axis lengthwise of vthe shuttle', spaced thread-guides to be bridged by the thread arranged in endwise spaced relation to said package and in a line transverse of said axis, and a movable threadguide engaged by the part of the thread bridging the spaced thread-guides and spring-urged from thelatter lengthwise of said axis and movable toward them under the pull of the thread.'W f` y2. A loom shuttle including, with a sluitA tiley body and4 means to support therein an endWise-delivering weft-thread package With its longitudinal axis lengthwise of the shuttle, spaced thread-guiding'hooks to vbe bridged bythe thread arranged in endwise l spaced relation to-said packagey and in a thread line transverse ofsaid axis, and a movable thread-guide engaged by the part' of the bridging said hooksv and vspringurged from the latterlengthwise of said ainsand movable toward them under the pull of the thread. f -f` 3l A loom shuttle including, with a shuttle body, spaced threadrguides to be bridged by` the weft-thread, an elongated guide ex' tending Asubstantially toward said thread guides and held in the shuttle body, and

a movable thread-guide slidable on and lengthwise of said elongated guide and eno.

guide and engaged bythe part of the thread `bridging the first-named lhreadguides, and a spring coiled on said elongated guide and having one end 'tixed and the 'other attached to said n1ovable`70 thread-guide and normally holding the same? retracted from guldes. f

5. A loom shuttle including,

the first-named threadtle body, spaced thread-guides to be bridged by the weft-thread, an elongated guide extending substantially vtoward said thread guides and held in the shuttle body, and elastic means engaged with the part oit-the thread between said thread-guides and connecting the same and said body and having sliding guide and :normally holding thread in thelorm of a loop.

G. A loom shuttle including,

by the weft-thread, an elongated guide having two substantially parallellegs extending substantially toward said thread-guides and held in the shuttle body, a movable thread-guide slidable on one leg'and a spring engagement with lsaid )elongatedsaid part ofthe with a shutsy as tle body, spaced'thread-guides to be bridged coiled on the other leg and connecting said movable thread-guide with said body. y

7. A loom shuttle including, ai shuttle body formed with acavity andan aperture opening into the same, aflexible elongated guide having yan end thereof removably entered into thev aperture ol the body and beingr attached to'said body remote froinsaid aperture, spaced thread guides infsaid body, and a thread-'guiding device slidable on said elongated guide yand spring-urged from said thread gu1des. f i

In testimony whereof l aflix my signature.

ALEXANDER TEMnLn'roivl 

